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Nicostratus

Nicostratus may refer to:

in fiction and mythology:

  • Nicostraus (mythology), a son of Menelaos by Helen of Troy or a slavewoman
Nicostratus (mythology)

Nicostraus is a mythological figure. A son of Helen of Troy and Menelaos (according to the Catalogue of Women, Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra (539), and according to Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, 3.11.1) Although not an important figure in most accounts of the Trojan War, he is the central character in The Luck of Troy, a modern version of the story by Roger Lancelyn Green.

Nicostratus is also a son of Menelaos and a slave woman (according to Pausanias' Description of Greece, 2.18.6)

Nicostratus (comic poet)

Nicostratus was a Greek playwright of the Middle Comedy. He was said to be the youngest son of Aristophanes. Photius claims that Nicostratus leaped from the Leucadian Rock due to an unrequited love for a woman named Tettigidaea.